Codex goes mobile. The coding tool — which OpenAI launched about a year ago — has now been integrated with the ChatGPT app, allowing users to remotely monitor and manage their development workflow.
The fresh feature allows users to see their Codex environments live on any device it is running on. The company announced the changes on Thursday; The update, which is currently in preview, is now available for all iOS and Android plans.
“It’s more than just the ability to remotely control a single task or send new tasks to a computer,” OpenAI said in a statement. “On your phone, you can work on all threads, view results, approve commands, change models, or start something new.”
Last month, OpenAI enabled Codex to run in the background in desktop environments, allowing it to perform various tasks on its own. Earlier this month, the company also introduced Chrome extension that allows the agent to work in energetic browser sessions.
Back in February, Anthropic released a similar feature – Remote control — which allows users to remotely monitor Claude Code’s work from afar.
The plethora of fresh features from both OpenAI and Anthropic demonstrates the tense competition between them over which agent coding tool will become the most widely adopted. Over the past year, Anthropic’s Claude Code tool has grown in popularity among both businesses and tech professionals, although both tools are still widely used.